Scores of people just as powerful sit inside the Bush administration cabinet, and before that in the Bill Clinton administration, quarterbacking for Israel. They conduct witch hunts for anyone or any country they deem hostile to Israel.

The balance is so skewed that Israel is not only telling the US what to do in this region, but determining which wars and what sanctions America will impose on whomever Israel and her Washington spies designate as enemies.

Here is a sampling of the public record of Israeli espionage and covert actions against the US.

President Bush seen praying at the wailing wall in Jerusalem in 1998, while he was governor of Texas. Taken from page 18 of the Arabic edition of Newsweek Nr. 95 of 1998 (Credits: http://all.at/ahmed).

Perhaps the most damaging result of the stubborn support for Israel is that the USA, and not only the government, is increasingly seen around the world as bankrolling a rogue country which knows no solution to social issues but extreme violence. The continued support of Israel and its genocidal policies is perhaps the principal factor contributing to the decay of american prestige around the world, not only in Muslim countries.

Johnson also said the FBI was furious that news of the espionage investigation had leaked. Johnson opined that the investigation could lead from DOD to the National Security Council, and that the timing of the leak just before the start of the Republican convention was not coincidental.

It appears to be the case that someone in the Pentagon got wind that Larry Franklin had been flipped, and was terrified that the investigation might go on up the ladder at the Pentagon, in AIPAC, and with the Israelis. So they leaked news of the investigation to make sure that everybody clammed up and shredded everything.

He is clearly a lamb being fattened. Franklin worked for or hung out intensively with Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Luti, Abram Shulsky, Harold Rhode, David Wurmser and a host of other officials known for their pro-Likud sentiments. So he takes it into his head all alone to pass confidential information to the Israelis? How likely is that?

The Jerusalem Post reported that the AIPAC officials involved were Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, and that they have spoken to federal investigators.

Rosen is AIPAC’s director of research and considered one of the most influential people in the organization. He has been with AIPAC since 1982, and mentored both Howard Kohr, AIPAC’s current executive director, and Martin Indyk, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Weissman is deputy director of foreign policy issues and specializes in relations with Iran, Syria and Turkey.

It’s long been evident that the Republicans do not stand for anything much different than the Democrats. Both have had power in recent years and have at various times held the presidency and the majority in congress. So a discerning individual can’t miss the sad reality of the political arena – the two parties differ only in the degree to which they are determined to destroy all that’s best about America.

Saturday's disclosures about possible Temple Mount terror plans were preceded in recent months by a number of troubling indications. Nine months ago a suspect in a Jewish underground terror group affair, Shahar Dvir-Zeliger, told authorities a prominent West Bank settler activist had planned a Temple Mount attack.

The Israeli diplomat has been identified as Naor Gilon, head of the political department at Israel's embassy in Washington and a specialist on nuclear weapons proliferation.

Mark Zell, a dual Israeli-American citizen and a former Feith law partner, suggested the leak about the FBI probe was part of an effort to discredit top officials in the US defence department.

"The pattern is that certain elements in the military and intelligence have a difficult time with the Pentagon leadership," said Mr Zell, who is based in Jerusalem.

If they support it and it loses, they too are losers and so will be deemed incorrect and immoral and fit only for the bottom. Therefore, many hundreds of thousands of basically good people who know that Peroutka is the best candidate will not vote for him, for they want to be on the side of a winner. And in America of the One Party system that pretends it is two, you always win by voting either Democrat or Republican.

Show the Republicans that in embracing Israel-First Jewish military hawks [the vast majority of whom are moderately Liberal on most cultural and moral issues,] Affirmative Action, mass immigration from the Third World, amnesty for illegal aliens, government spending that even Bill Clinton could not top, and the 'moderate' wing of the 'gay rights' movement, they are forcing their base, the vast majority of their voters [white Christians,] to leave to work for a new party, one that eschews Empire and all its inherent perversions and instead honors the Republic, which has been dealt a series of near-mortal blows since Abraham Lincoln: the first Republican President.

By the time the 2003 schemes came to light, Ghorbanifar was also peddling a different tale about his dealings with Pentagon officials Rhode and Franklin. No longer was he a broker of ``war on terrorism'' collaboration between Tehran and Washington. According to Newsweek reporter Mark Hosenball, who interviewed Ghorbanifar in Paris in November 2003, ``Ghorbanifar, a former Iranian spy who helped launch the Iran-Contra affair, says one of the things he discussed with Defense officials Harold Rhode and Larry Franklin, at meetings in Rome in December 2001 (and in Paris last June with only Rhode), was regime change in Iran.

All the info to prove the treason.

"I believe that Israel is the most dangerous state in the world today. Imagine what state the stability and security of the world would be in if the messianic Jewish extremists of Gush Euminim reached power in Israel and suddenly found themselves in control of Israel's massive nuclear arsenal."

Israeli analyst Allan Pappie of Haifa University believes the Franklin affair will deal "a very serious blow" to American-Israeli relations at the intelligence level.

What did Franklin's bosses know about their trusted underling's activities? In any case, one official cited by Newsweek described the Franklin inquiry as "the most significant Israeli espionage investigation in Washington since Jonathan Pollard."

The arrest and trial of Israel's fifth column in the Pentagon is going to unleash a lot of anger, because it is going to make Americans understand the nature and extent of the treason that entrapped them in Iraq. The very word "neocon" will become a synonym for treason, like Quisling.

Was the release of Larry’s name at this time politically motivated? And was that to hurt the Bush presidency or to save it, as Laura Rozen muses, with a "controlled burn"?

Why would Larry need to give draft documents on policy anywhere in the Middle East to AIPAC, when all the big decisions are already coordinated between Israel and the U.S. at far higher levels?

If the choice is between supporting Israeli apartheid and the United States our constitution and freedom, Israeli apartheid and racism win every time. I don't get it. What are we afraid of, a little name calling, being called racists for objecting to racism? Anyone who thinks will see this for the oxymoron it is. Honestly, there is nothing anti-Semitic about putting American interests first. We are American; we're supposed to. It's called self-preservation. After thirty-seven years and nearly two-trillion in aid and munitions to Israel, it is time we put the United States first.

By the summer of 2003, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had begun to get wind of the Ghorbanifar-Ledeen-DoD back-channel and made inquiries at the CIA. A month later, Newsday broke the original story about the secret Ghorbanifar channel. Faced with the disclosure, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld acknowledged the December, 2001 meeting but dismissed it as routine and unimportant.

So Franklin, Ledeen, and Rhode, all of them pro-Likud operatives, just happen to be meeting with SISMI (the proto-fascist purveyor of the false Niger uranium story about Iraq and the alleged Iran-Iraq plot against the rest of the world) and corrupt Iranian businessman and would-be revolutionary, Ghorbanifar, in Europe. The most reasonable conclusion is that they were conspiring together about the Next Campaign after Iraq, which they had already begun setting in train, which is to get Iran.

Having a draft of the document - which some Pentagon officials may have believed was insufficiently tough toward Iran - would have allowed Israel to influence U.S. policy while it was still being made.

Franklin's name surfaced in news reports last year when it became known that he and another Pentagon Middle East specialist, Harold Rhode, met in late 2001 with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms merchant who played a role in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said publicly last year that nothing came of the meeting, which reportedly was brokered by former National Security Council official Michael Ledeen.

Growing frustration over President Bush's immigration plan and lack of fiscal discipline came to a head behind closed doors at last weekend's Republican retreat in Philadelphia.

House lawmakers, stunned by the intensity of their constituents' displeasure at some of Mr. Bush's key domestic policies, gave his political strategist Karl Rove an earful behind closed doors.

According to one federal law enforcement official, Rhode and Luti and other OSP officials have been frequently mentioned in FBI interviews, "chiefly the nature and extent of his contacts with Israel," according to federal law enforcement officials.

This same source quoted the intelligence official with the CPA as saying, "Rhode was observed by CIA operatives as being constantly on his cell phone to Israel," and that the information that the intelligence officials overheard him passing to Israel was "mind-boggling," this source said.

Isn't American foreign policy in the Middle East already pretty much directed by Israel's needs and agenda?

The fact is Israel's current government has so much influence over America's current government that it doesn't need to spy and steal information. It can just ask for it, or just take it.

The Zionist traitor worked for Bill Luti as a specialist in Iran policy (he spoke Farsi) as he most likely must have been helping to push for the coming attack on Iran (if the Zionist neocons get their way) as he was working under PNAC/JINSA/CSP Zionist extremists (both of whom are Jewish) Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz.

An official who is the most likely target of the FBI investigation into who allegedly passed intelligence on deliberations on US foreign policy to Iran to officials with the pro-Israeli lobby group, AIPAC, and to the Israelis, as alleged by the CBS report. That individual is Larry Franklin, a veteran DIA Iran analyst seconded to Feith’s office.

The report says the suspected mole is a senior analyst who works in the bureau of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The person is also said to be closely associated with two senior Pentagon officials who are Jewish, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.

CBS reported that the mole, whom it described as a “trusted analyst of the Pentagon,” had last year passed on “secret White House deliberation on Iran.”

The FBI has notified Rumsfeld about the investigation and asked AIPAC to provide it with information about the two representatives suspected of involvement.

A lot of commissioners of the new Commission are not well known because originating from the new members of Europe countries, but in any case there is no doubts about the fact that their hearts all beat in favour of extreme liberalism. We are coming to a more hard stage of liberalism tending to be restored in full power of its belief in its credo.

How can Washington continue to defend Israel's aggressive and murderous foreign policy, which continues today what it has always practiced in its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, in its blatant disregard for international law, in its building of an apartheid state, in its use of military hardware against civilian targets, in its construction of colonies on lands which were stolen and which it refuses to give back?

The Right went wrong, in Mr. Buchanan's view, because of one major problem: Neoconservatives.

The battle for the soul and heart of the GOP was fought some years ago, and Mr. Buchanan's side lost.

His heart and soul do indeed go marching on, but there are few inside the Republican Party today inclined to march with him.

The profound weakness of the organized movement stems from its liberal beliefs and its distrust of people who are against the war but not in favor of the liberal agenda. How else explain its focus on just the tiny, "progressive" segment of the vast range of antiwar sentiment?

New Democracy has launched a campaign for MassRefusal 2004, a call for people to refuse to vote in this presidential election, as one step toward building coordinated community actions that involve millions of people.

"That is not a conspiracy. That is the policy. I didn't like to keep it a secret, maybe; but I can tell you now, I will challenge any one of the other 99 Senators to tell us why we are in Iraq, other than what this policy is here. It is an adopted policy, a domino theory of The [Zionist] Project For The New American Century. Everybody knows it [is] because we want to secure our friend, Israel...

'Peak Oil' claims that because today we only find one barrel of oil for every four that we use, world oil reserves are running out. Completely misleading propaganda, as the Russians [and the CIA] know perfectly well, reserves of oil in the mantle of the earth are infinite. 'Peak Oil' also claims that we will shortly be unable to pump sufficient oil out of the ground to keep up with demand. Completely misleading propaganda again. We could drill more wells, but Wall Street cannot afford to pay for them, and never intended to, at least not while it still believed conquest and eternal occupation of the Middle East was a realistic possibility.

The key question being debated in the European Union - and of course in Moscow and Washington - is which alliance will prevail: with the US or with Western Europe? With China, it's not really an alliance: it's a question of making money because, as any visit to the region reveals, Russia remains terribly afraid of Chinese demographic and economic pressure over the Siberian border.

The European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas — have nothing to do with genuine free trade. They have everything to do with creating regional governing bodies on the road to world government.

Until Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, Russian oil policy was dictated by a corrupt alliance of Russian oil producers and the US government. Putin's campaign against Yukos has put a stop to that.

It is unsurprising that the US media have failed to report the Yukos affair in this light, let alone to have noticed that the US, the world's largest oil consumer, has tried, but so far failed, to compel Russia, the world's second or first-largest oil exporter, to ship and market oil in the way Washington, or Houston, wants.

AN AUDACIOUS bid to impeach Tony Blair for misleading Parliament over the reasons for the war in Iraq will be launched by MPs today.

This latest assault on Mr Blair’s integrity is being led by the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalists together with a Conservative MP, but it is expected that other Tories and Liberal Democrats will sign up along with disaffected Labour backbenchers.

The United States is not so much engaged in "power projection" against an amorphously defined terrorism by installing bases in small or weak Eastern European and Central Asian nations as once more confronting Russia and China in an open-ended context which may have profoundly serious and protracted consequences neither America's allies nor its own people have any interest or inclination to support.

The European Union is rapidly descending into totalitarianism. Under NAFTA and the proposed FTAA, U.S. policymakers have adopted the same socialist EU program.

Implicit in speculation about the "pre-election plot" is the assumption that al-Qaeda, or kindred spirits, has a preferred candidate. A recent New Yorker article quotes a message from the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, an alleged al-Qaeda affiliate, published after the Madrid attack. "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections," it said, lauding the utility of Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism".

The Bush administration has pumped up the SPR, most recently awarding massive new contracts to Chevron-Texaco, Shell Trading, and Vitol for the delivery of 93,000 barrels per day of crude beginning next month. This increases demand and diverts supply: a recipe for higher prices. The current goal of the Bush administration is to store 700 million barrels in the SPR, purchases undertaken at the highest nominal prices on record.

The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) re-launched itself with a bang last month, proclaiming its new mission to be "dedicated to winning the war on terror."

What it didn't say is that the billionaire philanthropists behind the CPD intend to broaden this "war on terror" beyond al-Qaeda to focus on all militant jihadist groups, including Israel's perceived enemies.

Understanding Bush’s vulnerability, Ariel Sharon decided to pull the rug out from under the President and announce the building of 1,000 new units in the West Bank.

Bush, who has repeatedly committed himself to the Road Map as well as to Palestinian statehood, quickly reversed himself and caved in to everything “The Man of Peace” wanted.

THE MAN PICKED by President George W Bush to head America’s Central Intelligence Agency is even more of an intelligence insider than has so far been revealed...

The MadCow Morning News has learned that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Porter J Goss of Sanibel Island Florida is a previously undisclosed member of the secret society “Book & Snake” at Yale.

With John Kerry on the ticket, the Democrats have ensured a victory in November for the small but powerful pro-war special interest. Kerry is their sleeper, their private Manchurian candidate. They face a win-win scenario. Even if Kerry wins, the initial euphoria sparked by a Bush-free White House will eventually be replaced by this reality: no matter what Kerry and Edwards may have said from the podium in Boston, for most of the world neither help nor hope is really on the way.

He has been consistent in his staunch opposition to the occupation of Iraq. "There can be no politics under occupation, no freedom under occupation, no democracy under occupation," he said this month. What is so radical about that? If his Mehdi Army were patrolling and bombing London or New York, I would be astonished to find media descriptions of US and British resistance as "radical".

The United States supports Israel's argument that this repressive wall is being built along security lines. The world's voice has been raised in a clear chorus, supporting Israel's right to defend its citizens, but opposing using such defense as an excuse for increasing Palestinian misery. However, America stands against the world, as it does in so many ways. And the American people hardly even hear about their government's behavior. In the din of a presidential race, the occupation of Iraq, and the assorted neoconservative misadventures of the Bush administration, the sound of America helping to construct a wall remains unheard.

"The Democrats have offered no real alternative on these issues of militarism and empire," said Chalmers Johnson, a retired UC San Diego professor and author of "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic." "They want the same things."

General George Washington was suspicious of unnecessary foreign wars and a large military, leading to big government oppression at home. His form of patriotism is truer to the American spirit than its modern day militaristic counterpart, which treats war as a cool videogame and has more in common with German and Soviet-style patriotism of the 20th century.

Cutting our losses means promptly beginning the process of disengagement. That implies bringing the troops home, leaving it to the now-liberated Iraqis to sort out their future, and mending the diplomatic fences so recklessly torn down in the administration’s rush to war.

Ironically, far from building a powerful coalition to garrison Iraq under U.S. command, what President Bush has really managed to do is to provide formerly rudderless left-wing parties around the globe with a red-hot new cause with which to rally and electrify their supporters. At the same time, he has made himself the most detested man in world affairs. Those conservative governments that continue to support him and the U.S. occupation of Iraq do so at their peril and are becoming alienated from their own voters.

Officially, not many in the oil business seem prepared to admit that the real big problem today is unprecedented demand by the US, China and India - which production simply cannot match. But if people in the oil business know that consumption is growing at its fastest in more than 20 years, they also know that OPEC - controlling about half of the world's oil export supply - is already pumping at the highest levels since 1979.

The need to control Iraq's oil is deeply intertwined with the defense of the dollar. The strength of the dollar is guaranteed above all by a secret agreement signed between the US and Saudi Arabia in the 1970s that all OPEC oil sales be denominated in dollars. Saddam Hussein started selling Iraqi oil in euros (and making a handsome profit) in November 2000 - and that's another crucial reason for the Iraqi invasion.

The U.S. has struck an aggressive stance toward Iraq, Syria and Iran – the three Middle Eastern countries that are not ruled by American puppets on the American payroll. Now that the Soviet Union is no longer a check on U.S. intrusions in the Middle East, the Bush administration intends to complete the colonization under the cloak of bringing "democracy" to Islam.

The neocons have not abandoned this imperial project. Nor has Bush removed a single one from power, though they may yet cost him his presidency. And the neoconservative commentariat is again beating the drums for war -- this time on Iran.

Zionists are attempting to downplay Cipel's importance, and the mass media are concentrating on the salacious aspects of a degenerate politician . . . However, how much was McGreevey on the hook to Jews? Free junkets to Israel, close relationships with the Jewish community (even requiring a liaison), not to mention his wild invective against the National Alliance -- some of which was delivered from a podium he shared with ADL bosses -- show the usefulness to Zionism of corruption and filth at all levels of leadership in the USA

Cipel was given the Homeland Security post even though he was an alien and even though former FBI director Louis Freeh had offered to take the state position without pay.

Ralph Nader isn't notorious for backing down from a fight, and hard-line Zionists are always quick to throw the first sucker punch. So you can bet this will not be the last of the anti-Semitic accusations hurled at Nader by the ADL or other pro-Israel factions. It seems their only response to allegations of the US's critical support for the brutal Israeli government, or one's compassion for the Palestinian plight, is to label such individuals as malicious Jew-hating-bigots. It just shows how insignificant the ADL's charges have become.

What's more, those Blacks who are awakening resent White America for what has been wrought in the name of equality. They scarcely can be blamed. They wanted equal opportunity. We gave them equal outcome.

And we provide equal outcomes with mechanisms that reek of an expectation of failure and inferiority on the part of Blacks. Relative merit is disregarded in favor of skin color. No attempt whatsoever is made to limit society's largesse, either quantitatively or temporally, implying a belief in perpetual, inbred inferiority. All this and more is put in place by the politically correct, who universally accuse others of being racist, all the while showing favoritism in a way that belies their own truly racist beliefs that Blacks are too inferior to earn their own way.

Implanting Western-style democracy in Iraq and in the Middle East is the 21st-century version of the white man's burden of the lone superpower. But Iran remains a force - more symbolically than militarily - against America's desire to impose democratic liberalism on the Muslim Middle East, for Iran's rulers have their own vision for their country and for post-Saddam Iraq: that of continuing with the Islamic republic and preparing ground to ensure that some form of Islamic government is established in Iraq through elections. Because of these intricate reasons for conflict with the United States, there is no wonder fears related to regime survival drive Iran to seek a nuclear-weapons option.

Scheuer believes the conflict with Islamic extremism will continue to spiral without a fundamental rethink of US priorities in Iraq and a relationship with Israel that "drains resources, earns Muslim hatred and serves no vital US national interest". It is a depressingly pessimistic assessment. Ultimately, "we only have the choice between war and endless war".

Seven in 10 in the poll say they believe the United States went to war in Iraq based on false assumptions. A similar number say the war in Iraq has given the United States a worse image in the world.

A majority, 55 percent, say they don't think the war in Iraq will result in greater peace and stability in the Mideast.

When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, not only did Russia withdraw its armed forces from Europe, but the Warsaw Pact was dissolved. At that point, any reason whatsoever for the continued existence of NATO died on the vine. But did the United States disband NATO? Oh, no, it kept NATO alive and has now expanded it right up to Russia's borders.

The pusillanimous stand of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is further proof of the power the fanatical friends of a foregn power have over American foreign policy in the Middle East.

No blueprint for the new imperialism is more respected than Brzezinski's. Invested with biblical authority by the Bush gang, his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives describes American priorities as the economic subjugation of the Soviet Union and the control of central Asia and the Middle East.

A letter signed by Shiites and non-Shiites alike addressed to Allawi and his Cabinet demanded "an immediate cease-fire and cessation of all military activities in Najaf and other Iraqi cities."

Allawi must decide which side of the political spectrum he's on. If he continues "inviting" his American buddies to bomb so-called insurgents' safe houses resulting in civilian casualties and to fire on his fellow-Iraqis in Najaf destroying centuries-old tomb stones in the process and risking the very existence of the Imam Ali mosque, then his tenure as prime minister is likely to be short.

A recent article in The New Republic argues that Mr. Bush's main accomplishment as the leader of the Republican Party has been to lose the white working class base that has served as the backbone of GOP presidential victories since the days of Richard Nixon . . . But what's interesting about the article, "White Flight" by John Judis and political scientist Ruy Teixeira, is why the president has lost this base: The war in Iraq. [BUSH LOSES HIS BASE. White Flight by John B. Judis & Ruy Teixeira]

The current Governor James McGreevey homosexual scandal is actually the result of yet another Israeli sexpionage operation targeting "sexually loose" Democratic Party government officials. Two other recent operations, that should be fresh in the memories of the American people, are the Congressman Gary Condit and the President Bill Clinton Affairs.

The Associated Press expresses confusion, both its own, and that of US government officials, about what Muqtada al-Sadr's goals are. The wire services do not appear to have caught on that Muqtada is demanding the withdrawal of US troops as a necessary precondition, but that is what is being reported by al-Jazeerah.

The Globalist’s vision of a Pan-American Union was dealt a serious blow late Sunday night when it was announced that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had beaten the effort to recall him from office. Chavez has led the fight in South America against the Globalist’s corporate takeover of the hemisphere, and has been vocal in denouncing U.S. Foreign Policy as well as exposing extensive CIA intervention in the region. This was the second attempt Washington has made to remove Chavez since Bush took office, the first one having been the CIA-sponsored coup attempt of April 2002. Now that their democratic effort has failed, the CIA will inevitably return to a violent approach, big enough in scale to finish the job.

An Iraqi cabinet minister said Thursday that Iraqi forces could begin an offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr within hours, even after the firebrand cleric holed up in Najaf apparently accepted a ceasefire proposal aimed at ending nearly two weeks of fighting in the holy city.

I do know that, if you study what he did in Honduras, you will see what Mr. Bush and his cronies have in mind for Iraq,” Mr. Stanton wrote.

“In my opinion,” Mr. Stanton continued, “he [Negroponte] will replicate what he did in Honduras, especially in light of the growing freedom movement to resist the Iraqi puppet government that [President] Bush, [Senator] Kerry, and all the rest of the New World Order imperialists want to so desperately crush.”

After all, if expedited removal of non-Mexican illegals is such a good idea (as opposed to just waving them into the country, which is still happening as you read this), why was it not ordered until nearly three years after 9/11? Why wait until August 10, 2004? Well, because Rep. Tom Tancredo had a news conference scheduled for August 11, 2004, to release previously unpublished statistics on third-country illegals caught on the Mexican border — including 122 Pakistanis in the first nine months of this fiscal year.

"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action," Rep. Doug Bereuter wrote in a letter to his constituents.

"From the beginning of the conflict, it was doubtful that we for long would be seen as liberators, but instead increasingly as an occupying force," he said. "Now we are immersed in a dangerous, costly mess, and there is no easy and quick way to end our responsibilities in Iraq without creating bigger future problems in the region and, in general, in the Muslim world."

"Nearly half the money spent in Democratic Party presidential primaries comes from Jewish contributors… A majority of Clinton’s cabinet members were Jews. Jewish advisors play key roles in the Bush administration’s national security, foreign and military affairs."

In other words, what is wrong with the Republican base is not that it cannot support electoral victory, but that to build victories on it would require policies—such as curtailing immigration—that those in control of the GOP are ferociously determined to reject.

The two parties don't care about you. They care about power. They care about winning elections, no matter the cost. They've abandoned the American people and their needs. They've forgotten that the rights Americans enjoy are to be protected, not manipulated. They don't care to hold to the constitution's limitations. This must change, but will not change if we continue to give them our support. If you want government to reflect your principles, vote for candidates and parties that reflect those principles, no exceptions.

"America is not the only one present in the region. We are also present, from Khost to Kandahar in Afghanistan; we are present in the Gulf and we can be present in Iraq," said Shamkhani.

"If Israel fires one missile at Bushehr atomic power plant, it should permanently forget about Dimona nuclear centre, where it produces and keeps its nuclear weapons, and Israel would be responsible for the terrifying consequence of this move," General Muhammad Baqir Zolqadr warned.

Hersh is not stupid, he knows what everyone else in Washington and out of government knows: the Zionists in the Pentagon were pushing for war with Iraq before 9/11 (even before they took office in Washington and were working with the Israeli state) and were intent on having the US destroy Iraq, at any price including the loss of American lives, budget busting deficits, imperiling oil interests and jeopardizing US global imperial interests.

In the final analysis even if Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Rubin, Libby and the current crop of Zionist Pentagonistas are forced to resign it will only be a temporary setback. The Zionist political organizations remain intact, their influence over Congress remains overwhelming and they have pledges from both major presidential candidates that Israel s cause is America s cause (Bush and Kerry).

Even so, first-strike offensives have been an essential element of Israel's defensive doctrine for decades - the most famous instance being the Israeli Air Force's destruction of Egyptian air bases to open the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

"Certainly it would be seen as a continuation of what the Americans did in Iraq,'' says Bruce Maddy Weizman, a fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle East and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. "Israel and US are widely perceived to be acting in concert.''

A measure of the effect of the various fatwas issued by the ayatollahs is that by last Saturday, no fewer than 4,000 Iraqi security forces in Najaf were reported to have defected to Muqtada's Mehdi Army. Officials at the Iraqi Ministry of Defense admitted, for example, that "more than 100 Iraqi national guardsmen and a battalion of Iraqi soldiers chose to quit rather than attack fellow Iraqis".

Rice's reckless comments ignore the obvious: nothing would unite Iranians, moderates and hard-liners, more than an attack on their country and, above all, on their prized nuclear facilities.

"The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles. Therefore, neither the Zionist regime nor America will carry out its threats" against Iran, he said.

An attack on Iran "could only be carried out by angry or stupid people. For that reason, officials of the Islamic Republic must always be prepared to counter possible military threats".

Democracy in Venezuela, under the banner of the Bolivarian revolutionaries, has broken through the corrupt two-party system favoured by the oligarchy and its friends in the West. And this has happened despite the total hostility of the privately owned media: the two daily newspapers, Universal and Nacional as well as Gustavo Cisneros' TV channels and CNN made no attempt to mask their crude support for the opposition.

"Even the suggestion is going to create trouble because it fuels all Iraqis' suspicion that their country was invaded for Israel's benefit," says Jeremy Binnie, Middle East editor of Jane's Sentinel.

Even if the pipeline never materializes, Israel has an ace in the hole. Under a 1975 memorandum of understanding, the United States guarantees virtually all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis - even if it means reducing the amount of oil available to Americans.

Israel cannot fool all of the world all of the time, including itself. Even the forgiving Americans are insulted when they find out that their friends from Israel think they are idiots. What is Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz thinking when he says that he is only waiting for the latest aerial photographs of the territories in order to show the outposters who's in charge?

Mr. Cipel was a junior Mossad case officer, originally posted to New York under official cover. The Mossad is well known for using human sex toys. McGreevey was lured into a relationship that was intended to penetrate New Jersey's homeland defenses.

Mr. Obama in other words is both a living testament to the power of black racial consciousness and identity and at the very same time a living renunciation of white racial identity.

He joins Tiger Woods and Halle Berry as the model of what the New American is supposed to be—the multiracial utopia where every racial identity is legitimate except that of whites.

Special interests, such as the oil companies, lobby the U.S. government for intervention overseas to serve their interests. When this results in blowback terrorism against American citizens-for example, the September 11 attacks-something has to be done to hide the government's own generation of demand for its provision of “security.”

Maybe it's the oil . . . Right now, the oil majors - like PhillipsConoco - keep 84% of the proceeds of the sale of Venezuela oil; the nation gets only 16%.

Chavez wanted to double his Treasury's take to 30%. And for good reason. Landless, hungry peasants have, over decades, drifted into Caracas and other cities, building million-person ghettos of cardboard shacks and open sewers.

The report called on the World Bank to improve its practices in the energy industry by setting in place better mechanisms to ensure that money gained from extractive projects will be used for basic needs such as education and health, instead of weapons. It urged the World Bank to adopt policies to guarantee the rights of people affected by large extractive projects, especially indigenous people. Most important, the report concluded that the World Bank should stop financing oil and coal projects altogether.

Immigration is the most formidable weapon of mass destruction threatening America today. Ironically, invaders have put our country at risk without firing a bullet. The White House, the heavies in Congress and the smaller fish in state legislatures do not possess the collective intellectual depth or common sense to see what is upon us and how rampant immigration will degrade the lives and opportunities of our progeny. Every day brings America closer to irreversible chaos.

Japan is now China's largest trading partner, while China is Japan's second-largest trading partner after the United States. Most economists predict that in the space of a few years China will easily snatch the number one slot. China already has overtaken the US as the largest exporter to Japan.

As an Israeli citizen, Cipel couldn’t have access to classified materials – except through the "back door," so to speak, via McGreevey.

If Cipel maintains that he consistently refused McGreevey's advances, then how can he explain the series of jobs the Governor found for him after he left public service? If the sexual relationship was nonexistent, then what power did Cipel have over the Governor? In any case, he exercised that power in order to penetrate the U.S. counter-terrorism apparatus – on whose behalf is not altogether clear, but Israeli organized crime and the Mossad are among the prime suspects.

Many westerners imbued with neo-imperialist fervour or a case of white man's burden are calling for another western army to march up the Nile and smite the latter-day Dervishes of Khartoum. Such crusading zeal should be curbed. Sudan is neither a second Rwanda nor a threat to the west.

Americans are dying for what cause? The opinion surveys in the US showed that at least one-third of the Americans now believed that Bush duped them and the feeling is enlarging as the number of coffins ( to date over one thousand) rise. But what is the number of Iraqi deaths? Nobody is sure. According to a US website—Iraqibodycount—the figure which it collated from various newspaper reports may have crossed 30,000. The US and Iraqi authorities asked the hospitals not to release any figure of Iraqi deaths and recently Al-Jajeera TV, which was reporting it partially, has been banned in Iraq.

In a provocative article, Joe Vialls reveals that Iran and Saddam's Iraq have a covert military alliance and began joint preparations for this war after the Gulf War ended in 1991.

Iran already has nuclear capability and recently threatened to "wipe Israel off the map" if Israel attacked its nuclear facilities. Vialls says the cleric Al Sadr is tied to the Iranians.

"As we shall see, if Moqtada al-Sadr is killed or maimed, we will be into an altogether new and exceedingly lethal ball game," says Vialls.

As American troops remain trapped inside Vietnam-style fortified fire bases in Iraq, their political masters in New York are realising too late that Iran guards the only line of retreat back down the Persian Gulf. The quasi Judeo-Christian 'Coalition of the Willing' is fast becoming the 'Coalition of the Damned'.

We have a new champion in the long history of astonishingly dumb nations: the Americans under Bush and Clinton are clearly number one, replacing the Germans under Hitler (the Germans were never shown how a free-market economy works, and their history is one of dictatorial kings, and ice-cold and corrupt bishops. What are Americans' excuses?)

In its zeal to penetrate the Governors office and homeland security, Mossad demanded that Cipel, an Israeli citizen who lacked any requisite experience or security clearances, be appointed to run New Jersey’s homeland security office. In that position Mr. Cipel could have not only obtained information on US security procedures, but also been in a position to access sensitive investigative information, methods and sources relative to US efforts to thwart Israeli espionage against the United States.

Why does the death of one single non-Arab or non-Muslim in the raging battles in the Middle East make the news, while the destruction of thousand Arab and Muslim lives, livelihood and homes are “nothing to write home about”?

What is not readily apparent is the fact that a number of Israeli off-the-books intelligence operatives are active inside the United States and they do not have U.S. national interests in mind. In particular, the Israeli-Russian mobsters and their allies within the Sharon government have adopted one of the most successful intelligence ploys used by the former KGB and East German Stasi--the use of prostitutes or "swallows" to gain intimate access to high Western politicians, so-called "sexpionage." In the case of Israel, which welcomed a number of émigré former Eastern bloc intelligence agents during and after the Cold War, this has entailed the use of both female and male prostitutes.

Foxman said Nader was continuing to spread a "canard" about the Jews. "He fuels the conspiracy theory that the Jews control the White House and the Congress. And it's a lot more sinister after Iraq," Foxman said, adding that Nader's comments "border on anti-Semtism."

How often, if ever, has the United States - either the Congress or the White House-pursued a course of action, since 1956, that contradicted the Israeli government's position?

Citizen groups are in awe of AIPAC's ditto machine on Capitol Hill as are many members of Congress who, against their private judgment, resign themselves to sign on the dotted line.

Those good Christian people in the pews on Sunday morning must be having a bit of trouble thinking about how close Jihad and Christianity are getting in the death department. It was one thing when Saddam was committing his mass murders, but quite another now that we are the participants in so many innocent Iraqi deaths.

When asked to identify the "first thought that comes to mind," the "best and worst things they could say about America," and "what America should do to change its image in the Arab World," the principal responses all focused on policy issues. "Stop supporting Israel," "Change your Middle East policy," and "Stop killing Arabs" were among the most common responses.

The Republican Party under Barry Goldwater in 1964 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 did not openly challenge such basic international principles as the illegitimacy of invading a sovereign nation because of unsubstantiated claims they might some day be a potential security threat.

Yet not only have Senators John Kerry and John Edwards continued to defend their support of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, the 2004 Democratic platform complains that the administration “did not send sufficient forces to accomplish the mission.”

Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.

But in language that until now has not gotten any public attention, the Goss bill would also redefine the authority of the DCI in such a way as to substantially alter—if not overturn—a 57-year-old ban on the CIA conducting operations inside the United States.

Corporate disloyalty to nation and people is obvious in corporate support for NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and mass immigration and the cheap labor it imports. Much of the hatred the left exudes for corporations comes from or plays on the theme of disloyalty, but—since the left itself doesn't really believe in nation or peoplehood either—it's limited in how clearly it can make the disloyalty charge.

The people who could make that and other charges against corporations and the global grabfest that they want to replace Western and American civilization are conservatives—the real kind, not the fakes who are little more than hired guns for Big Business.

Once in power, most opposition candidates would gratify Washington in other ways, analysts say. The new leaders would most likely drop Chávez's fierce opposition to US-promoted free-trade agreements and abandon his oil policy, which limits production and maintains elevated prices.

In a letter to the group that will be released today, he reiterated his arguments, challenged the league to cite a recent example of when American leaders have pursued a policy opposed by the Israeli government and pointed to Israeli peace groups that he said share his criticism of that country's leadership. "There is far more freedom in the media, in town squares and among citizens, soldiers, elected representatives and academicians in Israel to debate and discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than there is in the United States".

Given Israel's unchecked dominion over the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors over the past half century, supported in every way possible by the United States, one can assume that Muslims, not to mention intelligent non-Muslims, have no need for additional instruction as to the extent of Jewish power.

Bush and Kerry share indistinguishable platforms on the National Question. They both support mass immigration, linguistic Balkanization, multiculturalism and racial preferences. They both encourage illegal immigration and pander shamelessly.

What the "turning over of sovereignty" at the end of June signaled was the arrival in Baghdad of a new regime from the State Department and the CIA.

The Americans have yet to experience what Iraq would be like if the Shiite majority turned actively against them and took to the streets. In the meantime, we've shown Iraqi Shiites what American-style liberation means. We've just ordered all civilians out of downtown Najaf for their own good. Free-fire zones anyone?

And Israel is a country that never runs out of enemies.

For years, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was seen as the main existential threat to the Jewish state. But that place has now been taken by Iraq's neighbour.

Americans love the competitive element of elections, just as we like competition in sports and economics. But there is an important difference in the substance and result of political competition. Rather than improving performance and driving the teams to improve, political competition seems to have the opposite result. The two approved parties appeal ever more to the lowest common denominator and seem to replicate each other’s worst traits. Instead of excellence, we get mediocrity and downward drift.

There is no need to fret over wacko conspiracy fantasies and disinformation when there is plenty of the real stuff that demands our attention and our utmost efforts to expose and oppose. Here are just a few of the genuine, verifiable, imminent conspiratorial threats to our nation and our liberty, developed in much greater detail in past issues of The New American:

Iran said the EU-3 should support Iran's quest for "advanced (nuclear) technology, including those with dual use" - a reference to equipment that has both civilian and military applications.

More astonishingly, Iran said the EU-3 should agree to meet Iran's requirements for conventional weapons and even "provide security assurances" against a nuclear attack on Iran.

Certainly, three of these major operatives—Adnan Shukrijumah, Abderrouf Jdey, and Aafia Siddiqui—are already being linked together. But Shukrijumah and Jdey are the ones to watch, for they are being intimately seeded into the Padilla/dirty bomb and Ahmed Ressam/Canadian clique/West Coast threads of 9/11.

And now we have General Tommy Franks stating Israel was to be protected and this justified our breaking international law.

Is there anyone out there that still thinks Israel was not the prime motivation for invading Iraq and that main objective included securing oil for Israel first? Israel and persons in our government tied to military and energy contracts are the exclusive beneficiaries of 9/11. Israel hold over 40% of the contracts in Iraq, they receive more "free" armaments and increased funds from the United States and Sharon now has license due to President Bush to completely annihilate the Palestinians.

"Goss was a very strong supporter of the agency and not one who was ever associated with any proposal for change, or, for lack of a better word, reform," said David McMichael, a former CIA analyst. "To find him being the nominee can be interpreted as saying, 'This is business as usual.'"

The question our own two major parties always ask is this: Do you prefer Democrats or Republicans? It’s a loaded question. The voter isn’t allowed to reject the shared premises of the two big- government parties. And George W. Bush is completing the transformation of the Republican Party into a full partner of the Democrats in making the government as big as possible. The conservative or libertarian voter can no longer enjoy even the illusion that the Republicans offer a principled alternative to limitless government.

The charges against the Chalabis show the difficulty the US is having in producing a coherent policy in Iraq. If Salem Chalabi is arrested for murder then there is the ludicrous possibility that he will have to arrange the trial of Saddam Hussein from a cell neighbouring that of the Iraqi leader. The real lesson of the past year is that none of the old opposition leaders, such as Chalabi or Allawi, have enough support to establish a stable government.

Is the United States suffering more from political exploitation of terrorism than from terrorists? Is the Bush administration's aggression creating more terrorists than it is vanquishing? And what are the prospects for the survival of American liberty from an endless war against an elusive, often ill-defined enemy?

To the Bonesmen, the use of military power is a natural and essential corollary to political power. The Bonesmen are taught that, although ideas have their place, to truly transform history, military force is almost always required. Critics of the Order have pointed out that this philosophy of power and the imperial use of military force comes straight from the chronicles of the Roman Empire -- especially the Roman Empire during its phase of decline and collapse."

In real terms, closure of the Strait would force a diversion through the Sunda or Lombok straits and add 1.5 sailing days. That, in turn, would immediately stretch tanker capacity - already stetched - to the limit. Moreover, it would take the Singapore refineries and refined products out of the picture, at least to some extent.

To recall Mr Chavez, the opposition must equal or beat the 3.76 million votes he received when re-elected in 2000. But if the no vote against his recall is bigger, he stays in office. If Mr Chavez loses next Sunday's referendum, a presidential election will be held within 30 days.

El Mundo says the CIA plan appears to concede a Chavez Frias victory next weekend "for good or bad" and that Langley spooks are already working on a strategy to "neutralize" Chavez Frias by fair means or foul.

Among these blunders are the beliefs that Hispanic voters care more about immigration than other issues (polls also show that's not true), that promising amnesty would not attract more illegals and that the Democrats would be out-foxed by Mr. Bush's stealing their issue (They weren't; they merely denounced the plan for not going far enough and demanded total amnesty, which Mr. Kerry has promised if elected).

"Unfit for Command" sends a devastating message, unless effectively refuted. Perhaps most disturbing are allegations that Kerry's combat decorations are unjustified. His first Purple Heart, the book alleges, was accidentally self-inflicted. His commander, Grant Hibbard, is quoted as saying: "I didn't recommend him for a Purple Heart. Kerry probably wrote up the paperwork and recommended himself." Full release of documents demanded by his critics could settle this claim quickly if it is unwarranted.

Those giving assurances that America is benefiting from globalism are missing the big picture. Globalism is reshaping the US labor force, giving the work force a third world profile.

If the US economy can no longer generate jobs in tradable goods and services, we will find out whether Americans can survive by taking in one another’s laundry--and if Americans can pay for imports with domestic nontradable services.

Completing the farce, we now learn an astounding 15,000 tons of highly enriched uranium the U.S. sent around the world since the '50s for various research projects remain unaccounted for. It takes 10 kilos to build a basic nuclear weapon.

The Bush administration is a collection of ideologues and empty suits. Even Bush's alleged support for an intelligence director is misleading. Bush wants a guy with absolutely no power. That's not what the commission recommends. Without the power to control the budgets and to direct the resources of the various intelligence agencies, a new "intelligence czar" would just be another public-relations gimmick. And public-relations gimmick is the sum total of the Bush administration.

The Western empires came and conquered the Islamic world in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They then departed or were driven out in wars of national liberation. But the Christian minorities who had lived peacefully there for 20 centuries, and who were left behind when the West went home, are now paying the price of our occupations and of militant Islam's determination to purge and purify the Dar al Islam of all the hated residue of the Christian West.

The story I am about to lay out is one of high irony, for it is a story of how—roughly a decade ago—John Kerry, the Democrats' presidential candidate, allied himself with Dick Cheney, George Bush's vice president, on a critical issue—Vietnam prisoners of war.

All the lies are there for anyone who cares to judge them for themselves. Sometimes lies can be used to show the truth, or at least the reality of who, and what, and where, and why and how-anything can happen. That used to be what journalists determined. Now it's nothing but another relic, in another dusty book that seems to go unread. Soon it won't matter anyhow, because the sheep will go wherever their Shepard sends them, even if it's to the holding pens or to the camps themselves.

As the U.S. seeks to plug up the holes in its security, the recent activity in New Zealand ought to be of immediate concern. The Israeli government has refused to either disavow or claim "credit" for the activities of its agents in Kiwi-land, let alone apologize. In this age of terror, however, an Israeli covert operation that systematically and illegally collects Western passports is bound to raise all sorts of suspicions – and rightly so.

The size of Mexican immigration today (30 percent of the foreign-born population) is far larger than that of Italians previously (17 percent of all immigrants). Moreover, immigration stopped for the most part after World War I. Today, with both major parties babbling about amnesty, there's no prospect whatsoever of it stopping.

As the nation begins debate on how to reform the intelligence community, it is essential to remember that the Iraq war was not driven by bad intelligence, per se. As Bush's former director of policy planning admitted, this was a "war of choice." Intelligence was not used to make a decision for war, it was manipulated to mislead Americans into backing a war already planned.

While Arab Americans gave a strong plurality of their vote to George W. Bush in 2000, many now say they are repelled by his decision to launch the Iraq war and his support for the USA Patriot Act, as well as his perceived tilt toward Israel.

But the Arab American community also is feeling extremely frustrated by the strongly pro-Israel rhetoric of John Kerry's presidential campaign, according to Arab American activists interviewed here last week during the Democratic National Convention or by telephone beforehand. As a result, they said, many voters could end up casting their ballots for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, himself an Arab American, or staying home.

The attempt to force the overwhelming majority of moderate Muslims into the tiny space occupied by the minority extremist element is nothing short of wicked . . . Muslims do not want to conquer the world - on the contrary, it is their lands that are being conquered bit by bit at the hands of western forces. Of course we believe that we have a set of values and ideas which could bring peace, prosperity and justice to the world - as do followers of other faiths and ideologies - and we will continue to advocate and promote those in pursuit of what we believe is best.

What is interesting, though, is how persistent the fantasy of secession remains in the New York imagination—how intuitively logical it seems, how tantalizing and how real, and how quickly everyone grasps the concept. “It’s impossible, but it’s not crazy to think about,” says Leslie H. Gelb, the former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, “especially given that the city is chronically shortchanged by Washington and Albany and yet still retains financial strength and the great creativity of its citizens.”

Israel may not have any oil, but it is the most powerful player in the Middle East. In the great chess game that constitutes oil politics, there are only two pieces left on the board that might check U.S. plans to control the Middle East’s oil reserves: Syria and Iran.

It is painfully clear that political activism in the United States has been rendered ineffective or, in some cases, detrimental to the activists themselves. A portion of the blame rests on the shoulders of the Establishment, which has controlled movements through elite funding. However, a larger portion of the blame must be shouldered by the activists themselves. Contaminated by Hegelian memes and trapped in dialectical snares, activists continue to help the very plutocrats they claim to hate. Only when activists learn to transcend partisan affiliations and develop some autonomous aptitude will America finally see the fruits of any political activism.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert says he's committed to abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, but he does not expect President Bush to make it a campaign issue.

"Exploiting the November US presidential elections and the European concerns, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could order a strike at Iran's nuclear facilities, similar to the ones Israelis executed in 1981 against Iraq's nuclear weapons program", the diplomats were quoted by the London-based newspaper Al Hayat on Wednesday, August 4.

Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee some two weeks ago that his internal security service has compiled a list of a few dozen dangerous extremists supported by 150 to 200 Jews who wish for the death of Sharon.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," said H.L. Mencken. Apparently, Kerry and Edwards figure they can win the big enchilada that way. They may be right.

The policies of this administration self-labeled "conservative" have little to do with the essence of tradition. Rather, they tend to centralize power in the hands of the government under the guise of patriotism. If nothing else, the Bush administration has thrown into question what being a conservative in America actually means.

The Zionists use the guise of religion and the threat of anti-Semitism to seduce Jews who have not been educated to the difference between Zionism and true Judaism to leave their homeland and their livelihood to move to 'Israel'.

Uzi Safanov, a writer at the Seawanhaka newspaper of Long Island University in New York, agreed. 'I'm a Jew before being a journalist, before someone pays me to write,' he said. 'If I find a negative thing about Israel, I will not print it and I will sink into why did it happen and what can I do to change it.'

Regardless of how you look at it, it becomes clear that these people we call "terrorists" are not being kept at bay; far from it. They are running the country. They determine our civic life. They shape our private life. They decide how public resources are spent. They may dictate who gets to be the next president. It should be obvious that the government doesn't object. Not at all. The government benefits, by getting ever more reason for ever more money and power.

If we rank those countries which have benefited most, and are still benefiting, from the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, Israel heads the list. Here are the top ten reasons:

Some are calling it a political dream match – Barack Obama, the up-and-coming Democratic Party star, vs. Alan Keyes, the dogged, determined, super-articulate, passionate conservative Republican.

Vanunu underlined the fact that the best way to secure peace in the region was to force Israel to solve Palestine issue. He said that if peace was provided in the region then there would be no need for nuclear weapons. He believes that as long as Palestinians do not find real peace, no progress will be recorded in the Middle East.

Asia's poorest nation is developing offshore fields that, in the coming years, will yield billions of dollars.

The use of such a dual role is that it allows Mr. Obama to reject racial identity for whites while at the same time legitimizing it for non-whites. That, after all, is what the "multiracialism" of which he is supposed to be the latest and best symbol really means.

Neolibertarians, however, still believe that the government, which supposedly can’t do anything right, can still wage war correctly. One of the lines of reasoning is that governments are terrible at producing, but ever competent at destroying. But war is, in the statist mindset, supposed to produce something in place of what it destroys, is it not? That’s why it’s often called "nation-building," even by its opponents.

"This has nothing to do with politics," chief of staff Andrew Card said. "This has to do with better protecting the homeland and making sure that the resources of our intelligence community are well co-ordinated so that the President can have the best information available to defeat terrorism."

Take the Saddam trial. The entire Arab press - including the Baghdad papers - prints the judge’s name. Indeed, the same judge has given interviews about his charges of murder against Muqtada Sadr. He has posed for newspaper pictures. But when I mention his name in The Independent, I was solemnly censured by the British Government’s spokesman. Salem Chalabi threatened to prosecute me. So let me get this right. We illegally invade Iraq. We kill up to 11,000 Iraqis. And Mr Chalabi, appointed by the Americans, says I’m guilty of "incitement to murder". That just about says it all.

The absence of anti-war scepticism about the prospect of sending troops into Sudan is especially odd in view of the fact that Darfur has oil . . . As oil pipelines continue to be blown up in Iraq, the west not only has a clear motive for establishing control over alternative sources of energy, it has also officially adopted the policy that our armies should be used to do precisely this. Oddly enough, the oil concession in southern Darfur is currently in the hands of the China National Petroleum Company.

"If Vanunu were free to talk, he might remind the world that the greatest threat to Middle East peace comes not from Baghdad but from Tel Aviv".

"In a startling accusation, nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Jerusalem was behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was exerting pressure on the then Israeli head of state to shed light on the Dimona nuclear plant".

Because he had converted to Christianity he had received worse treatment than Jewish prisoners, he said. Vanunu said he had been treated like a Palestinian and that his captors had tried to "destroy" him.

Taking a public stance against Israel is a "serious mistake," Luchins said in his speech at Jerusalem's OU Israel Center, because when American Jews write critical letters to their congressmen or protest Israeli policies, the average American does not perceive their underlying love for Israel.

Polls show that upwards of 90% of the delegates are opposed to the war in Iraq. Why is there not one sign or placard in the hall asking Kerry to end the unfair and unlawful war in Iraq? Could be that the signs were confiscated, but you'd think they'd be able to smuggle one or two in the hall since the left has become expert at people smuggling across our southern border.

Our freedoms can only be denied by those who hold direct power over us, our own leaders, our own police, and our courts.

Our freedoms can only be protected by standing up to bullies and petty tyrants, whether uniformed or flag draped. That's how freedoms are gained, and that's how they must be maintained. To do otherwise is a dereliction of revolutionary duty.

We need to be given a cold, hard, honest assessment of what we hope to gain there, and what it will cost this nation, so we can decide whether or not we wish to pay that price. We need an honest election. This week's fraud at the FleetCenter failed the test.

The Israeli company Amdocs is allegedly involved in either information leaking or sharing or a security breach. It further tells us that there is a system in place which systematically tracks every call made in America. While the company is technically unable to record every single phone conversation, they do have the ability to compile lists of "pattern phone calls" and do know who is calling whom and when. Only an Israeli company could have such power of information and still be kept a secret from most Americans.

"We estimate that the fear factor adds as much as $10 per barrel to the price of oil," says Jim Burkhard, director of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Boston. "There has been no shortage of oil on the market, but as we eat away at that spare capacity, as we see so many potential sources of supply disruption emerge, this fosters anxiety ... that pushes prices high."

"Going to war in Iraq was a horrible, horrible mistake," he said. He accused Bush of "an arrogant, swaggering cowboy mentality ... he has done more than anyone to inflame the Muslim world by his words and actions".

Bush has been decisive alright -- decisively wrong. The American leader he most closely resembles is Col. George Armstrong Custer, an arrogant, opinionated, headstrong fool who spurned all warnings, boldly and resolutely leading his command to disaster on the Little Big Horn.

"I want the truth!" "America, you can't handle the truth!" This well-known snatch of dialogue, slightly amended, from "A Few Good Men" perfectly illustrates the U.S.A.'s state of mind today: it can't handle the truth. And that is if the truth is spoken, especially in these times when the truth-teller is smeared as being 'unpatriotic' and 'anti-American'. For a nation in the grip of near-collective narcissistic delusions, unwilling and unable to see the truths about itself square in the eye, I present ten tough truths about America.

Having Preacher John teamed up with Kerry -- that drearily ambitious man whose concept of bravery ran to shooting civilians safely from a riverboat in Vietnam -- leaves me with a bleak outlook for America and thereby the world. That this dishonest pair and the insipid Bush are the best America offers as leaders says something terrible about that frighteningly-powerful nation: it suffers a devastating poverty of imagination and spirit.